Microsoft Building Next Windows OS codename Windows Seven!

Blog Divulges Details About Next Windows OS

Microsoft employee in Denmark places a presentation on the company's web site that divulges new information.

Eric Lai, Computerworld
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 03:00 PM GMT-08:00

For the second time in five weeks, information about a key upcoming Microsoft Corp. product has come to light because of a presentation placed on the company's Web site by an employee in Denmark.

According to a PowerPoint presentation (download PDF) created by a technical staffer at Microsoft Denmark, the software vendor plans to invest in four major areas in the next client version of Windows after Vista. Microsoft has already begun working on its next OS, and one executive indicated last month that the company hopes to ship the follow-on during 2009 -- although Microsoft later issued a statement saying that it is "not giving official guidance to the public yet about the next version of Windows."

The PowerPoint presentation, which is dated Jan. 31 and can be accessed via Microsoft's download.microsoft.com site, was publicized today on AeroXperience, an independent blog aimed at Windows Vista developers.

The AeroXperience posting says that two slides in the presentation contain information that "more than likely applies to 'Windows Seven,'" the codename that Microsoft is using internally for the successor to Vista.

According to the slides, planned areas of investment for end users in Windows Seven include making it easier to find information and improving mobile connectivity. For example, a detailed list of future Windows features includes converged local, network and Internet search capabilities and improved wireless connectivity, management and security.

For IT professionals, the presentation indicates, planned improvements include added security measures, such as extending data protection and management capabilities to peripheral devices and expanding usage monitoring capabilities for compliance purposes. Cutting PC operating costs will also be a priority, via new features such as simplified provisioning and upgrading of systems, according to the slides.

Last month, AeroXperience was the first to report that Microsoft planned to spend US$1 billion per year on development of the next version of Office, which is referred to by Microsoft employees as Office 14 and is expected to be ready for release in the first half of 2009.

In the Office-related posting, AeroXperience cited a different PowerPoint presentation apparently created by another Microsoft Denmark employee that was also hosted on the download.microsoft.com site. That presentation has since been taken down by Microsoft, although AeroXperience still has copies of some of the slides on its Web site.

Separately, the next version of Microsoft's Windows Media Center software is expected to be released "out of band," meaning that it won't necessarily be tied to a new version of the base Windows OS or a service-pack update, according to a March 14 blog posting by a Microsoft official that was highlighted yesterday by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley.

Microsoft has released a version of Windows Media Center each year since 2002, including one codenamed Diamond that came out last year and is built into Windows Vista Ultimate. The blog posting by Charlie Owen, a program manager for Windows Media Center, notes that Diamond is the only one of the releases that was synchronized with a new version of Windows.

Owen wrote that with the next version of Windows Media Center, Microsoft will continue "our (approximate) yearly schedule" of releases. But he didn't disclose any specific target dates or development milestones. He added only that the Media Center team is "hard at work defining and coding the next version."

In her blog entry, Foley wrote that she expects the next release of Windows Media Center to arrive this year or during 2008. Citing unnamed sources as well as a hint in an earlier posting by Owen, she said that she thinks the upcoming version is codenamed Fiji.

Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the various blog postings related to Windows Seven and Windows Media Center.

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I'm so excited about a new microsoft release !

 

As far as I knew, the next Windows OS is codenamed Vienna, unless they changed it...



And why do I feel it'll just be a clone of Vista with a 'new look'?

 

and another resource hog OS... something that will require 4gigs of memory to run, 3gigz core 2duo (lol), and at least 100 gig of HD space...

 

Microsoft really needs to keep it's developers on Vista...finish writing it, remove WGA, and release the updates as SP1 ASAP. Oh, and by the way, remove WGA.

 

A.K.A. DRM capabilities within Office documents and more backdoors to keep tabs on users "in corporate environments". Sweet.

"This .docx will explode in 10... 9... 8..."

"Oh, BTW, stay off notebookreview.com or you're fired."

 

i think on wikipedia it says windows seven is a minor release while windows vista is a major release.

 

Well if Microsoft continues Vista's path of glory.The Minimal Specs. :
16 Core pc (tough windows will disable 3 of them for fun)
4 gigs of ram (but the non-Microsoftish applications will have their whole memory allocated in the pagefile)
~50gigs of HDD for the windows to build it's hacienda.
Two GPU's in SLI/Crossfire (One GPU will be reserved for Windows)
...
(I leave the rest to you guys )

 

Shush you haters If you cant say anything nice...

My grand plan always was to skip Vista and get the next one. Unless bootcamp has really come along by then. Not going to let you lot change that!

 

Looks like Vista failed.. tat's y they need another windows...
Come on M$, could u just leave the windows alone, at least for 5 years.. like XP, i like XP the most, followed by Ubuntu.. i hate OS change

 

I also read that the codename of the next Winows is "Vienna". In ct, a well-known german computer magazine I read that the next Windows Version is supposed to contain major changes to Vista which they wanted to release already in Vista but didn't manage to do.
So, it read to me, as if Vista was more a minor release while Vienna should be something bigger. But we'll see... As far as I know Vista once was announced to be released in 2003 or so
If it's right that the next Windows is released in 2009, I think I'll skip Vista as I did with Win ME.

 

theres no way most buisnesses that upgrade to vista are going to throw out their 1-2-year old $200-$400vista copies they just upgraded to, just for Another "new" OS.

unless they completely change the OS and actually IMPROVE on it..

(which they should have at done in the first place with vista )

 

Here, I'll translate:

Sign me up.

 

hmmm... maybe "vienna" stands for "seven"

yeah i remembered too that vista was going out in 2003, but then.. oh well. maybe we wait for "seven years"

 

just to clarify some things. codename windows vienna and windows seven are one and the same thing.

The plan next OS after vista was codename "black comb." it was changed to "windows vienna" in early 2006 and and to "Windows Seven" or "Windows 7" more recently.

http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.asp

 

Hehe, no, Vienna is the english name of the capital of Austria, a country in the middle of Europe, between Germany and Italy. In native language (german), it is "Wien".

Ah, so they changed it to Seven... I was wondering all the time how they come to use Vienna

 

hmm... now i have to start saving some bucks ahead to buy me some lappy with 4GB ram - 512VRAM - 200GB HDD (hey,there's perpendicular and SSD).

such a sad news for my Z, still in XP Pro and there comes another one up ahead

 

it's a top secret!LOL

 

Did you know btw, that XP is an abbreviation for a serious skin disease, Xeroderma Pigmentosum?
Don't know if Microsoft knew that when finding a name for their 2001 OS...

 

LOL.... yacky!!!!

 

I liked 98 the most.

This news makes the clown in my chest twist my heart into funny balloon animals.

 

98???? that's strange... i never thought some people still used win 98....

 

notice these rumors come from Euro people only. These poor guys just try to save a buck and stick with XP now that Airbus is such a total collapse

 

Until now, I liked XP most.

I began with Windows95, which was quite OK. The only real advantage of Windows98 was the beginning of USB. I never owned Win ME, but heard from a lot of people it was complete crap. Windows XP looks nice, is stable, easy to use, a lot of software availabe...

Vista is in my opinion too new at the moment, especially for notebook users. I'll think about it in a year or so, I think then we'll know also more about Vienna/Seven.

 

hmmm that's nice to know i wonder how do they choose the name of their next OSes.

i want to ask apple about their feline-OS ... i want to see some "kitten"

but seriously, naming things is pretty hard to do